Pre-K - 12 Education

Lawyers wrapped up their arguments Tuesday in a hearing to determine whether a Carrboro charter school will remain open. But students and teachers at PACE Academy won’t know for several weeks whether they will be able to return to PACE in the fall. After a meeting at PACE Academy, PACE student Addison Edwards takes a […]

A hearing that will decide whether PACE Academy will keep its charter will go longer than expected. Attorneys for PACE Academy Charter School and the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) were scheduled to wrap up their arguments Thursday in a hearing that will determine whether PACE will remain open. But PACE’s attorney Phillip Adkins says […]

Former Efland-Cheeks Elementary School teacher Omar Currie stood before a full audience of adults at the Chapel Hill Public Library and read a children’s book: King and King, a story about two princes who fall in love and get married. Hear Currie’s full reading of King and King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland […]

PACE Academy will fight in court Tuesday to keep its doors open. Teachers, students, parents and alumni of PACE Academy gathered at the State Board of Education building Monday morning. They were there to protest the Board’s decision to revoke PACE’s charter. The state’s Charter School Advisory Board recommended PACE be closed due to concerns about […]

The General Assembly passed a stop-gap spending measure Tuesday. The bill keeps the government funded until mid-August while the chambers grapple over the final budget. But the measure does nothing to ease the concerns of 8,500 teacher assistants whose jobs are now in limbo. North Carolina teacher assistant Melinda Zarate has spent the last several […]

Orange County Public Schools canceled the public hearing planned to discuss a gay children’s book. Parents complained after former Efland-Cheeks Elementary teacher Omar Currie read his third-grade class a story about two princes who fall in love. Orange County Schools had planned the public hearing for parents and other members of the public to debate whether […]

Both appeals challenging the use of the fairy tale “King & King” in a third-grade class at Efland-Cheeks Elementary School have been dropped, according to the school system. The public hearing scheduled for Thursday has been canceled. Omar Currie says he read the book in late April after seeing a bullying problem in his classroom; […]

The third-grade teacher who read King and King to his classroom to solve a bullying problem at Efland Cheeks Elementary School has resigned. Omar Currie told WCHL in mid-May, following the initial controversy over the fairy tale that depicts two princes getting married, that his intention was to resign at the end of the academic […]

Public schools across North Carolina are entering their final weeks of the year, and that means it’s testing time for students. But with childhood obesity on the rise, schools face pressure to balance test preparation with the need for physical activity throughout the school day. You can listen to the story below: At Perry […]

Many teachers will say their most important, and sometimes most difficult, job is keeping students engaged. That challenge has prompted one local kindergarten teacher to come up with an out-of-the box idea. The covered-outdoor walkway outside Claire Ross’ kindergarten classroom at Estes Hills Elementary was the place to be on Friday afternoon as the group […]

A school teacher at Efland-Cheeks Elementary says he may resign over the controversy surrounding a book he read to students with a homosexual theme. The decision by third-grade teacher Omar Currie to read the book “King & King” to his class three weeks ago led to an emotional public hearing in front of over 200 […]

A press conference turned into a contentious back and forth on Wednesday after a picture of students waving confederate flags sparked concern from parents in Chapel Hill. Ronald Creatore attended the press conference. He is the father of the senior at East Chapel Hill High who posted the picture of two female students waving confederate […]

Emotions are high in Chapel Hill after a picture of two East Chapel Hill High School students holding confederate flags was posted to the social media site, Instagram. Editor’s note: The account usernames have been blurred due to the age of the users. Comments made on the site caused more concern. The caption read, “South […]

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